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Hi Jon! No, I don't know how to declare a variable as styled text in AppleScript. Do you have a clue? Also, it seems like the only property of the selection-object that's implemented so far is the contents , which is of plain text type. But I'm really not an AppleScript-jock myself, and don't know e...

Hi Jon, My example AS code was only ment to show one possible pathway for simple and robust communication with Pages. The nice thing about using Apple Events is that it's transparent to most future changes in the internal architecture and formats of Pages. Also, I'm quite sure you will find AppleScr...

Actually, I don't see why Jon has problems integrating Bookends with Pages 2. It's got the full AppleScript support these days. Just to show you how easily it can be done, I wrote a few lines that scan through any Pages document (without RTF conversion or such) looking for typical reference tags. Th...

When Pages 2.0 exports RTF it doesn't only skip the images, but also washes away all style definitions (while MS Word preserves all styles and images). Many scientific manuscripts are preformated with styles supplied and defined by the journals. This is why it's a pain to apply formating after the w...